We had a leisurely three day weekend. It was really quite a good time. One of the highlights was Christian’s design of a logo and name for the new Albany swimming pool. You can see that here. He drew the logo, wrote a letter, and hand carried them into city hall and gave them to the Parks and Recs lady. I mowed the lawn this weekend and ended up with a small net loss of weight. That is a major accomplishment for me because I usually fall off the wagon big time and eat massive amounts of food. I am really going to try to reign in my eating over our upcoming ski vacation in Bend with the Rizo family. I am sure some skiing during that time will help.
The other thing I did this weekend was start writing a general machine vision application. I am writing the vision classes from scratch, but I am writing the GUI using KDE and Qt libraries. When I get this up and going good, I am going to switch over and write the thing in GTK+. It is very fun and interesting. I cannot believe it is getting so easy to work in those environments. I will keep going with my work in KDE and Qt until Fedora Core 4 comes out later this spring. I have a lot of things on my plate at my work at ATS right now, so it might move slowly. That being said, this should be a super base to get going on a machine controller and machine vision combination.
